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Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1729, 4 August 1883, Page 2

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Hobart, August 2. The Colonial Treasurer made his budget statement last night. He estimated the revenue for the current financial year at £-■563,000, ami the expenditiue at £519,000. The surplus will be applied to the lemission of 3s per cwt. on sugar, 3il per lb. on tea, and the abolition of thcTduty on machineiy. A new loan of a million is to be raised tor public WOl IvS.

Mjjlbourx fi, August 2. The Art) us has despatched a special coriespondont to Madagascar, to report on the cv flits m that countiy. .Sir Thomas Mcll wraith, the Premier of Queensland, lias requested Mr. Service to summon a convention of delegates from tiic \ arums colonies, to consider the annexation question. in the Assembly last night, Mr Service, in reply to a question, said that he believed that some of the liisli informers weie on board the steamship Pathan, but confessed that he was noplussed what to do in the niattei.

(Rcccued August 3id, 1 50 p.m MbLfIOUBXr, Yesterday. In the Assembly last night, Mr Service stated tlut the Government had been advised that it was impossible to deal legally w lth the supposed Ii lsh infouneis, and it had consequently been decided, if their identity was complete, to prevent their landing hcie. It is believed there were, altogether, ten on boaid the Path an, and that the vessel had left Adelaide at day-liyht, and would be intenuptcd at the Heads, and be inspected by the police Her destination was Sydney. It is announced th.it King Kal.ibaiu, of the Hawaiian Islands, will \i»it Australia shortly.

Adi- l vide, Vcsti'i'day. The papers, in recent, loading articles, have se\oiely condemned the attitude which Government ha\c adopted on the annexation question.